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 Register Now for Virtual Sessions with Marita Golden
Marita Golden in Conversation
Monday, Oct. 18
10 a.m.
Author Marita Golden will read from her works while engaging in a discussion with author Michelle Petties before opening up the discussion for questions from the audience.
Marita Golden Presents: Write Now! 2021: Creative Writing Intensive
Friday, Oct. 22
10 a.m.
Join author Marita Golden in an online 3-hour creative writing intensive. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.
About Marita Golden
Marita Golden is the author of 17 works of fiction and nonfiction. She is the recipient of many awards including the Writers for Writers Award presented by Barnes & Noble and Poets and Writers, an award from the Authors Guild, and the Fiction Award for her novel "After" awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has lectured and read from her work internationally.
Co-founder and President Emeritus of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, Marita Golden is a veteran teacher of writing. As a teacher of writing, she has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA Creative Writing Program at John Hopkins University. She has served as Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia. As a literary consultant, she offers writing workshops, coaching and manuscript evaluation services.
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The Las Vegas Book Festival is the largest literary event in Nevada, produced by the city of Las Vegas and Nevada Humanities. The annual celebration of the written, spoken and illustrated word is free and open to the public.
The 2021 is sponsored by Las Vegas Review-Journal/Las Vegas Sun, 98.5 KLUC, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Las Vegas Clark County Library District, NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, and is produced by Nevada Humanities and the city of Las Vegas.
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